SOLO SHOWS 

Carlos Amorales: Black Cloud

Carlos Amorales' solo-exhibition BLACK CLOUD is currently on view at Kunstmuseum Brandts and on view until 04.08.2024. ⁠

"The work Black Cloud by @carlos_amorales_ appears as gloomy and poetic as its title. More than 30,000 black butterflies in laser-cut paper swarm everywhere, in cloud-like clusters - on walls and posts, in windows, down from ceilings, up in corners. Individually, the fine paper insects are beautiful and fragile. In large clusters, they become a potential threat, bringing to mind biblical plagues and something completely uncontrollable. The seductive beauty goes hand in hand with the horrifying. In other words, it is a wildly growing installation that is set free when a completely new version of Black Cloud occupies the art gallery at Kunstmuseum Brandts.

In harmony with the installation, Black Cloud, Carlos Amorales has also created a series of new paintings especially for the exhibition in Kunsthallen at Brandts. The paintings show both organic and structured repetitions of motifs and thus contain a form of encrypted poems."⁠ ⁠ - Kunstmuseum Brandts⁠

- Kunstmuseum Brandts⁠ ⁠

 

SOLO SHOWS 

Mads Gamdrup: Grønningen 2023

Mads Gamdrup is part of the group-exhibition GRØNNINGEN 2023 at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art. 

The exhibition spans painting, objects, photography, sculpture, installation, video, textiles and much more. While the 35 artists begin from diverse perspectives, they are also interconnected, engaging in an ongoing artistic conversation that evolves in different directions each year.⁠

The exhibition is on view until January 28th, 2024. 

SOLO SHOWS 

Torbjørn Rødland - 'Oh My God You Guys'

Torbjørn Rødlands solo-exhibition 'Oh My God You Guys' is currently on view at Consortium Museum, Dijon, France. ⁠

The exhibition is curated by Éric Troncy and on view until 31.03.24. ⁠ ⁠

"The two photographs that open and close Torbjørn Rødland’s exhibition at the Consortium Museum represent a baby and an old man, respectively. The exhibition is designed as a journey leading from one to the other, namely from childhood to old age. It is therefore a highly narrative project, and for Rødland, an unusual approach to the concept of exhibition.⁠ ⁠

The exhibition highlights Rødland’s photographs in which two contradictory characters are featured. The artist often employs this type of “disruptive casting” to emphasize the oddness in the photographed scenes. The “scenario” created by the curator for this exhibition – titled “Oh My God You Guys” as agreed with the artist – takes the viewers on a journey from the dawn to the dusk of life, exploring sophisticated and troubled human relationships.⁠ ⁠ “Oh My God You Guys” unfolds across eight different rooms, with each featuring increasingly older characters – starting with the baby and progressing through children, teenagers, adults, and ultimately the elderly – and producing a large fresco reminiscent of Edward Steichen’s 1955 landmark exhibition “Family of Man” at MoMA." 

- Éric Troncy⁠ ⁠

Photo credit: Rebecca Fanuele © Consortium Museum.⁠

COMMISSIONS 

NILS STÆRK POP UP in Østergade



NILS STÆRK is pleased to announce a temporary pop-up space in Østergade 24, central Copenhagen, featuring a single installation by FOS.

The Danish artist FOS' artistic practice is diverse and moves through many genres and materials. It encompasses sculpture, installation, music, architecture, and design in the broadest sense. FOS is generally interested in how art can function as an alternative to the systems that typically regulate our behavior in our civil societies. His art often resides in social spaces, which enables new possibilities of sociality to arise – a hybrid form often referred to as Social Design. 

News 

We are hiring student assistants

 

Vi søger studentermedhjælpere, der har interesse for at arbejde med kunst, og som vil arbejde i galleriet 12-20 timer pr. uge. ved siden af studiet. 

Vi kan tilbyde et godt kollegialt miljø med fokus på samarbejde og professionalisme omkring løsningen af galleriets opgaver. Vi søger studentermedhjælpere, der har lyst til at hjælpe os med en række opgaver omkring registrering af kunstværker, systematisering og opdateringer af diverse data, bidrag til løsningen af salgs- og artist liaisonopgaver og diverse forfaldende opgaver i forbindelse med planlægningen af messer, udstillinger m.v.

Arbejdstiden er 12-20 timer pr. uge, og det er en forudsætning, at du har mulighed for at arbejde ca. hver anden lørdag i tidsrummet 11-15. 

Hvis det kunne være noget for dig, hører vi gerne fra dig senest den 14. december 2023. Fortæl os om din motivation for at arbejde i et galleri og om hvilke kompetencer du vil kunne bidrage med til vores samlede team. 

Du kan læse mere om galleriet på vores hjemmeside www.nilsstaerk.dk og du kan sende din ansøgning til gallery@nilsstaerk.dk

We are looking for student assistants who are interested in working with art and who would like to work in the gallery 12-20 hours a week.

We can offer a good collegial environment with a focus on collaboration and professionalism whilst solving the gallery's tasks. We are looking for student assistants who wants to assist with several tasks related to the registration of works of art, systematization and updating of various data, contributing to sales and artist liaison tasks and various tasks in connection with the planning of fairs, exhibitions, etc.

The working hours will be 12-20 hours per week, and it is required that you can work approx. every second Saturday between 11am and 3pm.

If this could be something for you, we would like to hear from you no later than 14 December 2023. Tell us about your motivation for working in a gallery and about what skills you would be able to contribute to our overall team.

You can read more about the gallery on our website www.nilsstaerk.dk. Please send your application to gallery@nilsstaerk.dk

COMMISSIONS 

Lea Porsager is part of Fuglsang Art Landscape

Lea Porsager is part of Fuglsang Art Landscape with the work Exhumed Limy Pool (2023) at Fuglsang Kunstmuseum. ⁠ ⁠

Lea Porsager's work was created with the desire to establish a meeting point on the lawn in front of the museum with respect for the site's cultural history and geography. The work is designed as an excavated area, which in terms of scale and location mirrors the historic irrigation pond. The buried limestone basin is bounded by a stone setting that reflects the area's protected stone walls. In the center of the field, three aluminum sculptures form a horseshoe formation that recalls the history of the place, where horses have played an important role.⁠

 


Photo credit: Jan Søndergaard

COMMISSIONS 

FOS commission "A.L.T" at Bethaniagade, Herning, DK

FOS' work "A.L.T." is now up as a permanent installation in Bethaniagade in Herning, DK. 

The over 30 meter work consists of red wide shaped stones, glazed concrete elements, repeated arches and cuts that break the surface as well as a bronze cast gate. The commission was initiated in the early stage in the construction of building, allowing for the work to be integrated into the building process to such a large extent. 

The work is supported by the Statens Kunstfond and has been created in collaboration with Peter Jensen Bronze Foundry and Tommerup Ceramic Workcenter.

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Photos: Herning Kommune 

GROUP SHOWS 

Lea Porsager: "Bad Timing - or How to Write History Without Objects"

Lea Porsager is part of the group exhibition: "Bad Timing - or How to Write History Without Objects" at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning. ⁠

The exhibition is on view until 22.10.23. 

Please find more information about the exhibition here.
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"Bad Timing – or How to Write History Without Objects is based on the historical exhibition Women Artists’ Retrospective Exhibition from 1920, where 200 female artists (both living and dead) exhibited almost 700 works at Den Frie. This historical moment becomes an occasion to examine how artists, then as well as today, are active writers of their own and our common art history.⁠

Today, many of the works from the 1920 exhibition are unknown or lost. The same applies to the stories of many of the women who created works for the exhibition. Bad Timing investigates how it can be possible to work with this material and historical absence. How can this absence take shape and become registerable?  For the exhibition this void is materialised through large tableaux of new works by prominent contemporary artists, who work to make absence physical in very different ways."

Exhibition text by Den Frie Udstillingsbygning